Unfinished Business

If you’re the child of immigrant parents, a significant portion of your life has been spent trying to gain your parent’s approval and meet their expectations. You feel guilt for all their sacrifices, but it seems nothing you do will ever be enough to repay them.

Obligations to care for them in their aging years places a significant burden on your life. Yet your relationship with them is no closer than when you were a child.

Using personal life stories and interviews with her parents, Amy Yip’s warmth, wit and vulnerability shine through on every page as she charts the path of her own journey from detached: living in her own stories to connected: seeing her parents as human beings with their own stories, fears and dreams. Amy offers up groundbreaking insights and deeply moving stories that will inspire those in even the toughest parent-child relationships.

Combination of memoir and guidebook with interactive activities and prompts, Unfinished Business helps you to navigate conversations with your own parents. You will discover (or rediscover) your parents are humans too.